Iran calls for Israel to be wiped off map

[AtW]

Not the same thing though, is it. Not many jews make the news in such glorious fashion as our muslim friends.

Those guys there have pretty scary theories about end of the world and given they have lots of nuclear weapons it is rather scary -- I can't see Arab states giving up idea of getting nukes when Israel has them. Disarming BOTH sides would have probably be acceptable, but ISrael would certainly not agree to this.

[Chico]

Israel is not threatening anyone that it will wipe them off the map. Israel just wants to live in peace with its neighbours sadly thats not whats its Arab neighbours want (except Jordan and Egypt).

[The Lone Gunman]

Israel is not threatening anyone that it will wipe them off the map. Israel just wants to live in peace with its neighbours sadly thats not whats its Arab neighbours want (except Jordan and Egypt).

Except Palastine, they are doing a good job of terrorising them!
Forcing them into walled ghetos, seizing their land and property, refusing to let them work in effect making them non citizens. You would have thought the Jews would know better!

BTW. The Talmud has a similar statement to the Koran in that all non believers must die.

Not picking on you chicken it just made sense to reply here.

[Chico]

Breaking News

Iran stands firm on Israel remark

From The Beeb Online

Iran has defended its president's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map", saying this has been its foreign policy since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Ahead of an anti-Israel rally in Tehran, Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki said Iran did not recognise the "illegitimate Zionist regime".

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's words provoked international outrage, but Muslim countries have not reacted.

However, a senior Palestinian official rejected the Iranian position.

"Palestinians recognise the right of the state of Israel to exist and I reject his comments," chief negotiator Saeb Erekat told the BBC News website.

"What we need to be talking about is adding the state of Palestine to the map and not wiping Israel from the map," he said.

World outrage

Mr Ahmadinejad made his comments on Wednesday in Tehran at a conference entitled The World without Zionism.

Referring to Iran's late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Mr Ahmadinejad said: "As the imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map."

Mr Ahmadinejad did not have any intention to speak up in such sharp terms and enter into a conflict


After the foreign minister's remarks, Iran's embassy in Moscow published a statement saying the president had not intended to use such strong words.

"Mr Ahmadinejad did not have any intention to speak up in such sharp terms and enter into a conflict," it said.

"It's absolutely clear that, in his remarks, Mr Ahmadinejad, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, underlined the key position of Iran, based on the necessity to hold free elections on the occupied territories."

Mr Mottaki said the demonstration in Tehran on Friday would illustrate the anger of the Islamic world about the existence of Israel.

Every year on the last Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan, Iran organises a large rally to show solidarity with the Palestinian struggle.

Tehran says the West's reaction is linked to its nuclear plans (No sh*t sherlock)

It is likely that President Ahmadinejad's remarks were aimed at rallying support for this event, the BBC's Frances Harrison in Tehran says.

But the comments caused several European countries to summon Iran's ambassadors to hear official protests and led Israel to call for Iran to be expelled from the United Nations.

So far no action has been taken at the UN, even though Secretary General Kofi Annan took the unusual step of rebuking Iran for the comments.


Iran has dismissed the international furore as a means of pressing Iran to compromise on its nuclear programme.

Negotiations have stalled between the EU and Iran over attempts to persuade Tehran to abandon its nuclear ambitions.

In Washington, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the Iranian leader's words underlined US concerns about Tehran's nuclear programme.

The US suspects Iran of wanting to acquire atomic weapons but Tehran insists it wants nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

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Oh dear how long before those surgical strikes? Actually regime change and the democratisation of Iran is the next logical step.

[BobTheCrate]

As I say, I don't believe Israel would ultimately allow Iran to go nuclear. They would flatten facilities at Estafan for example first.

Iran's president has basically given Israel a fairly rational reason to attack these facilities whenever they feel the time is ripe.

Then again perhaps Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threats are intended to provoke Israel; thereby fanning the flames of the middle east tinderbox even further.

Either way Ahmadinejad is intent on trouble with such threats.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Easy for you to wish millitary options far from the inferno Chico, but your eagerness for War could end with the complete destruction of the Middle East...but if you are a fundamental Christian and a Rapturist then its all going to plan,what ?

[ratewhore]

Well I think the UN should call an emergency meeting and condemn the statement. That'll learn him and he won't do that again. Oh no...

[Chico]

Alfred

You obviously have not done your research on the so called rapturists. God determines when the world will end not George Bush, Ariel Sharon or the mad mullahs. As I recall before the Afghanistan War and then the Iraq war, you tree huggers were saying the end of the world was nigh blah blah and now you repeating the same nonsense. Meanwhile the free peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan are exercising their democratic rights and voting in their millions at every opportunity despite the combined efforts of the murderous terrorists and lefty namby pamby tree huggers like yourself.

[ALM]

Alfred

You obviously have not done your research on the so called rapturists. God determines when the world will end not George Bush, Ariel Sharon or the mad mullahs. As I recall before the Afghanistan War and then the Iraq war, you tree huggers were saying the end of the world was nigh blah blah and now you repeating the same nonsense. Meanwhile the free peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan are exercising their democratic rights and voting in their millions at every opportunity despite the combined efforts of the murderous terrorists and lefty namby pamby tree huggers like yourself.

Chico,
If you honestly believe that the invasion of Iraq has been one rosy success story, you are a bigger f*ckwit than even we gave you credit for.

[Chico]

Lets see the man responsible for more muslim deaths in history no longer in power but caged up like a dog. I'd say that was pretty successful.